Welcome to the Fun Collection of Valentines Music Theory Worksheets
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Scroll down for more info on how to use each worksheet. To master music theory, kids need lots of reinforement, and the fun themese and colorful graphics on these printables get kids excited about learning.
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Piano Keys–Dinosaur Love
Purpose:
Help beginner students learn the names of the piano keys.
How it Works:
Kids look at each keyboard diagram and identify the piano key. They then circle the letter name of the key.
Companion Active Learning Idea:
After completing the worksheet, take kids over to the real piano and have them practice identifying the names of the keys. Call out the name of a key and have the student find it and play it. I usually ask the student to find two more keys (same letter name, just in a different octave), and have them say the name out loud while they press down the key.
Valentines Fish Rhythms–Ear Training Valentines Worksheet
Purpose:
Ear Training–Rhythmic Dictation.
How it Works:
Give the student a copy of the worksheet and have her sit so that she can’t see the piano. Tell her that you will play a 4 measure rhythm and she should listen and fill in the missing notes. Play the example twice, then check answers and give feedback as needed.
Companion Active Learning Idea:
If you are in a Valentines group lesson and have a student who can play in a steady rhythm, invite him up to play one of the examples. Help him think of a rhythm to play and remind him to play slowly, clearly and with a steady tempo. Kids love the chance to “be the teacher”!
Valentine’s Day Rhythm Rocket
Purpose:
Review rhythm, time signatures and bar lines.
How it Works:
This free printable Valentine’s worksheet has sooo much great rhythm practice! For the first line, kids write the counts beneath each note and rest. Line two is missing the bar lines, so kids draw those in. When they get to line three, kids complete the time signatures by writing in the top number. The worksheet lists the possible answers, and each time signature is only used once.
Companion Active Learning Idea:
After completing the worksheet, ask kids to clap or tap the rhythms while counting out loud.
New! Valentines Key Signatures Music Theory Worksheet for Sharp Key Signatures
Purpose:
Identifying key signatures for sharp keys.
How it Works:
Just print out a free copy for each student, give them a pencil, and let them get to work. Students look at each example and identify the key signature. They then write the name of the key signature inside the blue box. If you want to go more in depth with students who are more advanced, you can have them list the name of the minor key alongside the major key. But even if you just stick with identifying major key signatures, your students will get great practice.
Valentines Key Signatures Music Theory Worksheet
Purpose:
Identifying key signatures for flat keys.
How it Works:
This flat key signatures printable works the same way as the sharps printable featured above. Print out a copy for your students and then have them identify and write the name of each key signature. I always teach my students a little trick that makes identifying flat key signatures easier: circle the second to last flat. Now just identify the circled flat–that’s the name of the key signature. Easy! Remind students that they will just have to memorize the key signature that only has one flat, which is the key of F.
V-Bot’s Secret Valentine-Valentines Music Worksheet for Drawing Braces, Clefs and Bar Lines
Purpose:
Practice tracing and drawing braces, bass and treble clefs, and the double bar line.
How it Works:
I LOVE the way this worksheet turned out! I wanted a Valentine’s activity that would be appealing to boys (and that girls would still like too!) and am so happy with how this one works. Basically, kids just trace the music symbol and then draw it on their own. Kids can also complete the activity to find out the name of V-Bot’s secret valentine.
To discover the name of V-Bot’s secret Valentine friend, kids just identify each symbol and circle the letter that matches. When they’ve completed the worksheet, kids just find the colored button at the bottom of the page that matches and copy the letter. Once they fill in the buttons, they’ll have discovered the name of V-Bot’s secret Valentine friend.
Valentines Note Name Worksheet
Purpose:
Practice the note names for treble and bass clef.
How it Works:
This activity is pretty straightforward. Kids just identify each note and write its name on the line below.
Companion Active Learning Idea:
Have your student come up to the piano to practice naming and playing the notes. Teacher points to a note on the page and student finds the key, plays it and says the note name out loud. For younger students, you might just do 5 notes. With your more advanced students, you can challenge them to see how far down the page they can get in 30 seconds.
Monster Valentine Rests
Purpose:
Practice tracing and drawing rests, reviewing rhythm and counts by adding rests to complete a measure.
How it Works:
Students first get to practice drawing rests. This is such a great exercise for kids, because many kids think rests are difficult to draw. Just give them lots of practice with activities like this one and before long they won’t be intimidated. With this printable, kids first trace the rests and then they draw three of their own.
Next kids get to draw the rests in context to review rhythm. Music students will look at each measure and figure out how many beats are missing. They then draw in one rest that will complete the measure. This means they have to know the values of each rest–they can’t just draw two quarter rests when two beats are missing because in order to complete the measure with only one rest, they would half to draw a half note. Don’t miss this activity with any of your students who need practice with rhythm!
Valentines Day Music Intervals Worksheet
Purpose:
Practice identifying intervals by type and size.
How it Works:
To complete this assignment, students look at each set of notes and determine the interval size (ie 2, 5, 6). Then students also identify the type (augmented, perfect, diminished, major, minor). There are several different ways to write the interval classification, so you can teach students your preference. I personally don’t mind if my students use abbreviations.
How do students get good at identifying intervals? Practice, practice, practice! So be sure to give them lots of activities like this one throughout the year, and before long they’ll be lightening quick!
Sharps in a Scale-Valentines Music Worksheet for Major Scales
Purpose:
Analyze the major scale, review key signatures and add the missing sharps to a scale.
How it Works:
This printable helps kids analyze quite a few properties of a major scale. First kids are asked to look at the scale and identify it. For example, if they believe it is a C major scale, they would circle “C Major”. Next kids are asked to think about key signatures and write down which notes should be sharped in this scale. Finally kids draw in the missing sharps and then mark the half steps with a slur.
Struck by Cupid’s Arrow-Half Steps and Whole Steps Valentines Printable
Purpose:
Identifying half steps and whole steps.
How it Works:
Use this worksheet to help kids both recognize half steps and whole steps and also to learn figure out these intervals. The first question asks piano students to identify the distance between the two notes as a half step or whole step and write their answer. The second question asks kids to draw a note that is a whole step above the given note. The third line again asks kids to identify either a whole step or half step, and the fourth line has them draw a note that is a half step below the given note. Lots of great practice with half steps and whole steps so that your students will be pros! And when this concept is easy for your students, it serves as a building block for so many other theory concepts.
Robots: An Accidental Love Story
Purpose:
Practice tracing and drawing sharps and flats.
How it Works:
I have a few students who are just being introduced to sharps and flats and learning how to draw them. This printable lets us really hone their skills while having fun with the Valentine’s theme. Students first practice tracing the sharps and flats, and you can point out to them that each symbol is centered on the line or space where the note is sitting.
Students then get to practice independently drawing sharps and flats next to notes, and you can help them remember to draw each symbol on the correct line or space. Finally, students get to trace “a whole bunch” of sharps or flats. Some students won’t yet know that this is a key signature or the order of sharps/flats, but it’s a great primer. When they’re exposed to more advanced ideas frequently, they’ll seem familiar when you are ready to tackle them.
Will You “Bee” My Valentine?
Purpose:
Understanding the major scale.
How it Works:
Do you have any students getting ready for theory exams? This worksheet will be a huge help, and make the practice fun. Kids first mark the half steps with a slur and then draw the tonic in the final measure. A great feature is that the worksheet includes a keyboard diagram for any kids who need help visualizing the half steps. They can color in each note of the scale on the keyboard and then easily pick out the half steps.
Music Valentine from the South Pole
Purpose:
Ear training–Rhythmic Dictation
How it Works:
Help kids improve their ear, which will in turn make them better musicians, better composers and make piano playing more fun! You can start with simple activities like this one. Just instruct your students that they will hear two measures and they will fill in the notes from the second measure. You’ll want to start with simple rhythms, consisting of quarter notes, half notes or whole notes. Later on you can get trickier by adding rests, eighth notes and so on.
Love Birds-Beginner Key Signature Worksheet
Purpose:
Introducing key signatures, key signature practice for very young students.
How it Works:
This handout is for use with young students or students who are just being introduced to key signatures. We do a lot of theory in my piano studio, and as a result, the kids are progressing quickly and I have some students who are quite young who are being introduced to key signatures. This free printable Valentines music theory worksheet allows young kids to practice with just a couple of examples so they don’t get overwhelmed. Kids just draw a line from the key signature to its letter name.
Super Valentine Scales
Purpose:
Understanding the construction of a major scale, adding the missing sharps or flats.
How it Works:
This free printable Valentine’s Day worksheet helps kids understand how scales are formed and is also excellent practice for students preparing for theory exams. To be a scales superhero, kids need to figure out what sharps or flats they need to draw in to complete the major scale. This will be easiest for them if they will use the key signatures they’ve been learning. After drawing the sharps or flats, kids mark the half steps with a slur and then circle the tonic.
More Holiday Music Theory Worksheets
If you liked these Valentine’s Day music theory worksheets, you might want to check out the free printable music theory worksheets for other holidays. Just click a link or an image below to visit the pages for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Saint Patrick’s Day and Easter.
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Your sheets are wonderful – very clever and creative and beneficial to students. However, all the ‘cute-sy’ stuff sure does use a lot of ink. When a teacher has many, many students and prints out ‘free’ sheets, they end up being not so free. Ink is expensive! I would prefer much smaller ‘cute-sy’ stuff and more substance that pertains to the themes of the sheets. For instance the ‘Music From the South Pole’ only has two examples, but look at how large the ‘cute-sy’ stuff is! I’d much rather have five or six examples and smaller pictures. The ‘Bee My Valentine’ heading will take a ton of ink. Why not make the heading smaller and put another scale or two on the page? Do you intend for these to be used at the lesson? If there were more examples, one or two could be completed at the lesson, and then the student could complete the others at home. Please don’t think I’m being critical. Your sheets are wonderful just as they are. I’m making comments from the perspective of a
financially challenged piano teacher! LOL! Thanks for listening! Patti Bennett/Owner, Instructor/Music by Patti
Hi Patti! Thanks for your ideas. I will upload some more worksheets that use less link–I know there are other teachers in the same boat :) The worksheets with only a few examples are created with younger children in mind who need smaller assignments, so I’ll get some added that are for older students and have more examples. I print a ton for my students–and there are a couple of things that I do to save on ink that might help you. My husband buys my ink on ebay, which saves us an astonishing amount! And then for activities like the South Pole ear training, I place the sheet in a page protector and have my students use dry erase markers. This way, we can just erase their answers and do another example. Hope these ideas help! And thanks again for your feedback. I will let you know when I get the other worksheets uploaded.
Thanks so much for all of the free resources through your website. My students love the art and love the holiday themed theory sheets! They don’t even know they are doing theory, BTW, they just exclaim, “what a cute worksheet!”. So thank you very much. I also do the same thing as you, buy ink on ebay and laminate some of the worksheets so I can use them over and over again as lesson activities.
Hi Patti,
I understand what you mean about the cost of ink and paper, so I just started putting the worksheet under a laminating sheet and use a dry-erase marker. I don’t actually laminate the worksheet, I use the self-sticking kind that opens like a folder and you have to peel it to laminate. These are heavier and work better than the thinner page protectors used in notebooks, especially when it comes to erasing. I put the worksheet in the middle, DON”T peel it, and it becomes a dry-erase board. I use to print off the worksheets and send them home but they usually didn’t get done (or make it back) anyway so I decided to stop wasting my paper and ink. This has worked great. The graphics are so great the kids love when I get them out. The younger ones think they are playing a game instead of doing theory work…win-win!
Kristin – Thanks –from the bottom of my heart — for all these great sheets! (Pun intended:)
What a great tip, Barbara! Thanks for being so thoughtful and sharing your terrific ideas. You’ve heard me say it before, but I believe that we all benefit when we work together. So glad to hear that your students think these are fun. I get the same reaction from my students and I love that they’re enjoying these “games” and enjoying the learning process!
Barbara – I have never heard of this kind of laminating sheet. I assume you can find them at an office supply store. Is that correct?
Hi Cheri,
I actually got mine at Wal-Mart. I haven’t looked at office supply stores but here’s the product info:
Scotch Self-Laminating Document Protectors Reorder #LS854G (Letter size, Glossy) They also come in matte, but for the purpose of “erasing” the glossy work better. Hope this helps. Bet Amazon probably has them, too:) All the Best!
Join MTNA, get the Office Depot card and pay about 1/3 the price of printing–color or B&W. Sometimes 1/4 the regular price.
This year I have 12 students under the age of 7 so these pages will get a lot of ‘work-out’!
Dinosaur Love is probably favorite.
I love your Valentines Day Music worksheets!!!! I love your Christmas and Halloween ones also! My students enjoy all of your sheets! I have piano students from 7-17 years old.
Thank You!
Thanks for your kind comment, K.acy. I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed the holiday worksheets. I just love how holidays give us opportunities to make learning fun!
Thanks, Jeannie! I designed many of these with those younger students in mind. Hope your students have fun!
great content here
The links to a few of these worksheets are not working correctly. (Love Buds, Bee My Valentine, Cupids Address)
Thanks for letting me know Laura! I think I’ve fixed the links so they should be working now.
Thanks for these!
There appears to be one issue, though. When I click any of the bottom 6 worksheets, they all show up as “Music Valentine from the South Pole”.
The bottom six icons all open to the same rhythmic dictation paper. Help! I don’t want to miss these great sheets.
Hi Robbin! The other worksheets should now be working now. Hope your students enjoy!
Love these — but the links for the six at the bottom are all pointing to the same worksheet — ??
Ah – just tried again, and they are fixed — thanks!
Thanks, Kristin! Your worksheets are wonderful! I do Skype piano lessons with my grandchildren, but saw them over Christmas. Used several of your Christmas worksheets with them! They even tried to play a Christmas piece like the Piano Guy did! Fun stuff! Thanks for sharing your great ideas!
How fun that you get to teach your grandchildren! I’m glad that the Christmas worksheets helped when you got to teach them in person, and I’m thrilled to hear that they had fun trying to play a piece upside down. Your grandkids sure are lucky to have a grandmother who makes time for fun in their instruction!
Kristen, I just wanted to say thank you! Thank you for the worksheets! Thank you for the ideas! Thank you for your creativity! Thank you for their timeliness! But most of all, thank YOU for sharing!!
I wish you could see the huge smile on my face. Thanks so much for your kind comment, Jacquie! It means so much to hear that these resources have helped you and your students.
Thank you so much! You are very kind to share the worksheets!
You are very welcome, Diane. I’m so glad you’ve come and hope your students have fun learning theory with these resources.
I love your worksheets and the cute graphics. My students faces light up when I pull them out and that makes me so happy. I use the sheet protector method to reuse them over and over as you mentioned above, and it works great. Thank you so much for sharing all your cute and effective worksheets and ideas. I love your website/blog!
Thanks so much, Dana! I love that these worksheets help your students get excited about learning and practicing music theory. I think kids learn so much better when they think the material is fun! So glad the dry erase method has helped you out too!
Thank you so much for sharing these! Cute pictures and they reinforce many concepts for my students. FYI – I use my ipad to do many of these worksheets (save them to my dropbox) and it seems to work well.
Hi Kristin, this is in regards to the comment you made on January 10, 2015. Would you mind telling us what kind of ink cartridges you use? The kind that I use can’t be found on eBay for a price that makes much of a difference. Thanks so much for all the great worksheets! I know the kids will love these and learn a lot from them.
Hi Beth! Thanks for your comment–I’m glad your students are enjoying the worksheets. For the ink, it totally depends on what type of printer you have and what manufacturers make ink for your model, but I’ve found a company called EZink. The sell bundles of ink cartridges on ebay and I’ve saved quite a bit by buying from them.
Thank you so much. This is a wonderful resource!
Thanks so much for sharing these with us! Looking forward to using them in the next few weeks. Thanks!
Wow, amazing. Thank you so much. Love the colours, graphics and opps for practicing concept-reinforcement in a fun way.
Thanks Caroline!
Lovely resources thank you Kristin. I appreciate that your worksheets suit both girls and boys. And it’s nice to celebrate Valentines day with our students – nothing wrong with spreading more love around the world :-)
Thank you for your beautiful Valentine worksheets. My students will love them.
Wow, Kristin, I just discovered your website today and I love the awesome worksheets you have created and all your wonderful content. I love also the concept of teachers sharing their ideas that they have gained as they teach. My students will absolutely love the worksheets. I will try to write an update once I’ve tried them with the kids.
I have been using your holiday worksheets for several years now. They are wonderful, not to long so they can complete them easily. I just had a request or question about the Valentine Sharps in a Scale and others like it. It would be nice to have a companion worksheet to go with it for Flats in a Scale so they would be able to do the flat order and scales along with the sharps. I appreciate having the key signature one in both flats and sharps. I know there are a few other worksheets like this involving key signatures on scales where it is nice to have both. Thanks so much for sharing these!
WOW!!! this is a great help for music teachers.. my students will love these and very interesting music games and i am really happy. your work is brillient. GOOD JOB!!! let’s keep in touch!!!!
Thank you!
Kristin, thanks so much for sharing your hard work and great creativity. I love using your sheets with my students. I usually put them in the strong plastic sleeves and let them use dry erase markers. So they are re-usuable!